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Mar 27, 2012 / 1:07am

Is Intelligence Self-Limiting?

Once a FOOMing intelligence is smart enough to understand its own design and can redesign itself at will, motivational signals are vulnerable to the strategy employed by robot 0x2A: the simplest solution to any motivational problem is to tinker with the motivational signals themselves. If this leads to a serious disconnect between external and internal reality, it amounts to death by Occam’s Razor.

Groups accuse Siri of being "pro-life," Apple says it's beta side effect

While Siri will humorously show you nearby ravines or abandoned mines when asked "how can I hide a body?" or can find local escort services when looking for "sex," the paucity of responses in the area of pregnancy and birth control have raised concerns that Siri is programmed to be "pro-life."

Siri in Practice

Some quick comments on using Siri in practice—for things other than asking it to open the pod bay doors. Siri’s voice recognition is very impressive, and the scope of what it understands is very good given the difficulty of what it’s doing. But it has a lot of difficulty with certain sorts of names—Irish names, for example, which often are not written as pronounced.

Unthinking Machines

You might wonder why aren't there any robots that you can send in to fix the Japanese reactors," said Marvin Minsky, who pioneered neural networks in the 1950s and went on to make significant early advances in AI and robotics. "The answer is that there was a lot of progress in the 1960s and 1970s. Then something went wrong. [Today] you'll find students excited over robots that play basketball or soccer or dance or make funny faces at you. [But] they're not making them smarter.

Using genetic algorithms to find Starcraft 2 build orders

Over on a forum called teamliquid, a user by the name of Lomilar posted a fairly long thread about a program he had written that optimized build orders for the zerg race in starcraft. He eventually cleaned up his code and posted the code to googlecode. The program is called EvolutionChamber (a clever name, as it’s the name of one of the buildings in the game), and it uses genetic algorithms to find build orders.

This I had to see.

Official Google Blog: What we’re driving at

So we have developed technology for cars that can drive themselves. Our automated cars, manned by trained operators, just drove from our Mountain View campus to our Santa Monica office and on to Hollywood Boulevard. They’ve driven down Lombard Street, crossed the Golden Gate bridge, navigated the Pacific Coast Highway, and even made it all the way around Lake Tahoe. All in all, our self-driving cars have logged over 140,000 miles. We think this is a first in robotics research.

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Is Intelligence Self-Limiting?

Groups accuse Siri of being "pro-life," Apple says it's beta side effect

Siri in Practice

Unthinking Machines

Using genetic algorithms to find Starcraft 2 build orders

Official Google Blog: What we’re driving at

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